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1) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the exceptionally elusive snow leopard. Munier introduces Tesson to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals, and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. Through their journey in the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men ponder humankind's place amongst...
3) Francofonia
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Set against the history and artworks of Paris' famed Louvre Museum, the director embarks on a uniquely personal exploration of the profound cultural legacy of WWII's Nazi occupation of France.
4) Little girl
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
LITTLE GIRL is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha's family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, Sébastien Lifshitz's documentary poetically explores the emotional challenges, everyday feats, and small moments...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
One evening after work hours, Jenny, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It's only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An affecting human drama of love, loss, and strength unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men, are off at the front. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred when the men return. Nominated for four awards, including Best Cinematography and Most...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Bonus features included.
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence.
9) Faces places
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed, and shared. Thogether they travel around villages of France in JR's photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories, and produtcing epic-size portraits of them. The photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and...
10) On my way
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 video disc (113 min) : digital, color ; 12 cm
Language
Français
Description
When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
11) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life₂s greatest challenge.
12) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
13) Tori and Lokita
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
15) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy) needs reliable transit to get to work-and it's suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. FULL TIME is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life.
16) The chef's wife
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Marithe works in a training center and her main responsibility is to assist people seeking alternative job options. One day, Carole arrives at the center, looking for new professional opportunities. She can no longer stand the pressure of working with her talented Michelin-starred chef husband, Sam, nor does she want to live in his shadow. She's never finished her studies and thus reaches out to Marithe to turn her life around.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
18) The worst ones
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who question the director's choice of "the worst ones." As...
19) Z
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
The masterworks édition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistant questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
20) Last summer
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2025]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A remarkably inscrutable Lea Drucker plays Anne an attorney advocating for abused minors who enjoys an enviable lifestyle with her husband, Pierre, a milquetoast businessman and ineffectual father to Theo, his troubled teenage son from a previous marriage. Compelled by her stepson's Apollonian beauty, Anne embarks on an affair that threatens the stability of her household, along with her professional integrity, as she faces a choice between accountability...
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